"In my honest opinion, I don't think Congressman Tancredo...would make a great governor. Obviously I'm running because I think I can do a better job. But I do think that, you know, saying he's going to bomb Mecca, or that he's, you know, some of these more outrageous...He tries to be flamboyant, which is really not what the state wants. Right? If we're gonna turn our economy around, we want predictability. We want stability in that. And, immigration is a perfect example. Right?"

At what point will progressive 527s make the Mecca line, or a million other attention-getting things Tancredo has said over the years, the focus of a TV ad? Are Dems really so confident they'll keep those particular bullets in the chamber? No telling. But when it comes to Hickenlooper, the strain's starting to show.

Check out the entire clip here. The segment referenced above takes place about a minute or so in: